Scrambled copy of Entourage to Mac Mail

Hi, I copied my Entourage mail across to MacMail. The hosted account (I pay for) has been scrambled on the way in-mail older than a few months has content that doesn't match the sender/receiver/date. Searching turns up wrong emails, so I have to go back to Entourage to find anything. Can I fix this?
I am running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5
Thanks.

Thank you Eric and Csound1 for your replies.
Rather than it being naivety, I had forgotten that the purchase of a new system doesn't mean the end of expenditure. Therefore, I'm doing all I can to eliminate any expense I can do without.
So, no doubt Emailchemy could help, but I decided to give the old Mac another go and try to save on the 30 bucks. One of Eric's links led me to something I hadn't tried before (kernel panics were happening on startup, even before reaching login) and so I tried to startup in Single User mode – Mac OS X: How to start up in single-user or verbose mode – when I then did a safe boot, I managed to log in long enough to do an export of my Entourage mailboxes.
...the Mac Pro crashed soon after. But, still, now I have my emails back!
Thanks.
T.

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